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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Woman Hollering Creek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his fingernails
(b) Weeps openly
(c) Cuts his hair
(d) Beats the children

2. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?
(a) Make
(b) Lift
(c) Well
(d) Accept

3. At what time is Cleofilas’ doctor’s appointment when she goes to see about the health of her second pregnancy?
(a) 2:00
(b) 3:30
(c) 5:30
(d) 4:00

4. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?
(a) 4,000
(b) 1,200
(c) 750
(d) 2,250

5. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Assonance
(b) Biblical allusion
(c) Mixed metaphor
(d) Foreshadowing

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

2. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

3. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

4. As Cleofilas sits by the creek with her son in the beginning of the story, she thinks “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love” does what?

5. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?

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